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The Soapbox: Politics and Rants

Dust in the Wind.

by kara on September 4, 2014

Now here’s a thing. Remember how I “reported” on the 9-year-old girl in the pink shorts who killed her shooting “instructor” with a submachine gun, killing him when the fully automatic weapon’s recoil kicked its muzzle toward his head? Well, Bullets n’ Burgers management talked to Mohave County Sherriff’s deputies and provided them with all […]

hey sluts

by kara on September 2, 2014

Who is sick to DEATH as dumbfuck Repubicans not understanding what contraception is? They can not get it through their thick fucking skulls that “The Pill” is not A THING. There are kazillions different oral contraceptives; monophasics, multiphasics, progestin only, estradiol, etc. etc.  on the market and a woman and her health care provider need […]

Season’s Bleatings

by kara on August 30, 2014

Yup, well, if wingnut Christians do anything particularly well it’s persecution fantasies and this obviously well made, not at all cheap bullshit film will be yet another (after “Persecuted”) giant christomasturbation fest. I guess the upshot is if you live in the South and Southwest (no doubt the only regions this film is playing in, […]

Aug. 28, 2014 2:34 pm By Thom Hartmann … If you want to know what libertarianism is all about, don’t ask a libertarian, because most of them don’t know. A new poll from Pew Research found that only 11% of those surveyed who identified themselves as libertarian were correctly able to identify the very basic meaning […]

Teen Sleuth

by kara on August 19, 2014

Out of all that argle-bargle about what happened, I have ascertained the following: Michael Brown, high on pot and rap lyrics, was bum rushing the police officer while simultaneously going for his gun, AFTER being shot five times. Assuming that Officer Wilson is right handed (like 85% of human race), then his firearm would be […]

by kara on August 18, 2014

Racists: Well, he was shot 6 times because he robbed a convenience store. Reality Check: We don’t know that. Racists: Well, he got shot because he charged the cop. Reality Check: With what weapon? Racists: Well, he was killed because he had pot in his system. Reality Check: Because everybody knows marijuana makes you so […]

Joe Biden, Soul Assessor

by kara on July 21, 2014

If you get a chance, read the profile of Joe Biden in the New Yorker today. Biden’s riff on George W. Bush’s soul-reading performance in 2001 (when the idiot in chief looked deeply into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and got “a sense of his soul“), is genius. Biden tells New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos this anecdote […]

by kara on July 14, 2014

from paul krugman’s blog in today’s NYTimes Chris Christie says that Obamacare is “a failure on a number of levels”. Which levels, exactly? I mean, first-year enrollment is above projections. The number of Americans without insurance has dropped sharply. Costs appear to be lower than expected, and more broadly cost control on health seems to […]

8-year-old Olivia McConnell was poring over a restaurant menu that listed all the official symbols of her state when she noticed that South Carolina doesn’t have a state fossil (not counting Strom Thurmond). She did some sleuthing, and the bespeckled third grader wrote a letter to her state legislators, Sen. Kevin Johnson and Rep. Robert […]

Over the last couple of months I’ve been compulsively watching coverage of #Bridgeghazi, analyzing Chris Christie as he explains and, well, lies. Something struck me when he was talking about the accusations, and about the friends and staff members he was throwing under the bus. It was like a poker “tell”. I’ve seen this before, the […]